Introduction to the work of the Study Programme on Maladjusted Families, which, in 1962 and 1963, brought together scientists, social workers and organisation activists working alongside families in extreme poverty in Europe and North America, as well as the first permanent volunteers who joined Joseph Wresinski in Noisy-le-Grand.
Entitled “La place du pauvre dans la pensée”, this paper was initially published in: Nouveaux aspects de la famille. Principes de promotion sociale de la famille inadaptée, Paris, 1964, pp. 7-10. Translated from French, August 2009.
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The Place of the Poor in Our Thinking
by Joseph Wresinski
(3 pages)